As CNET’s Lance Whitney is reporting, the latest browser market-share numbers from Net Applications show that Internet Explorer’s once-overwhelming lead is slipping. Except–well, the report still shows that Microsoft’s browser …

As apparently noticed first by blogger Joey DeVilla and picked up by our own Matt Peckham among many others, fresh stats from web analytics company StatCounter have Chrome edging past Internet Explorer in market share, at least …

I haven’t paid close attention to browser piecharts or percent usage spreadsheets since the late 1990s, when Microsoft and Netscape were slugging it out and some of us were still using Navigator’s “Netscape Composer” WYSIWYG HTML …

Microsoft — long relegated to the uncool corner of the tech world by popular kids Google and Facebook — is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. First, it released an ad campaign in the wake of Google’s controversial …

Every so often, Tom’s Hardware runs what it calls a “Web Browser Grand Prix,” putting the latest browsers through a battery of grueling benchmarks. The last throwdown took place in August, and was notable for its inclusion of a …

Companies usually don’t celebrate when they lose market share. Then again, most companies don’t have to deal with consumers stubbornly sticking with a product that’s 10 years old, especially when a newer version is available for …

All you diehard Internet Explorer users can relax this morning, because it sounds like the story that suggested users of Microsoft’s browser had a lower IQ than those who chose other browsers was an elaborate concoction. Maybe you saw this thing last week, when the media went a little hog wild with reports like InfoWorld‘s “Just how …

I’m hard pressed to remember what Googling was like before Instant, the predictive search feature that preemptively fills your page with results. Google, however, has taken another step in streamlining the service across its products by adding it to their IE toolbar.